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  2. Taikomochi - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese version of the jester, taikomochi were once attendants to daimyō (feudal lords) from the 13th century, originating from the Ji sect of Pure Land Buddhism, which focused on dancing. These men both advised and entertained their lord and came to be known as doboshu ('comrades'), who were also tea ceremony connoisseurs and artists.

  3. List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Classical ...

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    Chinese books had reached Japan since circa 400 AD and had been imported in large quantities through a number of missions during the Sui and Tang dynasties. Official missions ended after 894, but books continued to reach Japan in the mid to late Heian period through commercial exchange or via priests travelling to China. [49]

  4. Historiography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of Japan (日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku , who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE.

  5. The Cambridge History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge History of Japan is a multi-volume survey of Japanese history published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). This was the first major collaborative synthesis presenting the current state of knowledge of Japanese history. [1] The series aims to present as full a view of Japanese history as possible. [2]

  6. University of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative - Wikipedia

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    The University of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative (JTI) is a project intended to provide a comprehensive online database of Japanese literary texts. Sponsored by the University of Virginia and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library, the online collection contains over 300 texts from Japan's pre-modern and modern periods (generally ...

  7. Shoku Nihongi - Wikipedia

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    It is primarily written in kanbun, a Japanese form of Classical Chinese, as was normal for formal Japanese texts at the time. [2] However, a number of senmyō ( 宣命 ) or "imperial edicts" contained within the text are written in a script known as "senmyō-gaki", which preserves particles and verb endings phonographically.

  8. The New Cambridge History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    This volume will cover Japan before the seventeenth century. [2] Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c.1580–1877 (edited by David L. Howell). [3] This volume covers the Edo period. The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (edited by Laura Hein). [4]

  9. Hiraga Gennai - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Hiraga Gennai by Nakamaru Seijuro. Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, born c.1729; died 1779 or 1780) was a Japanese polymath and rōnin of the Edo period.He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku, author, painter and inventor well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator), Kandankei (thermometer) [1]: 462 and Kakanpu (asbestos cloth) [2]: 67 .